Basketball (NBA, College, etc.)

Ender's Girl wrote: the Magic's demolition job on the Hawks in Game 1. :sweat:

Yeah, that was surprising as well... :sweat:

Suns probably shocked a few people going into San Antonio and winning 110-96. :victory: Suns ended the year off as one of the hottest teams in the NBA, has so far carried over to the playoffs. Not a huge fan of theirs, good to see exciting teams like move on deep into the playoffs. Though no one has moved on to the finals yet, looks like we know who the 4 teams will be. :sweat:

I'll go out on a limb and say the team coming out of the West will have purple as one of it's colors.

hitomi #1 wrote:Suns probably shocked a few people going into San Antonio and winning 110-96. :victory: Suns ended the year off as one of the hottest teams in the NBA, has so far carried over to the playoffs. Not a huge fan of theirs, good to see exciting teams like move on deep into the playoffs. Though no one has moved on to the finals yet, looks like we know who the 4 teams will be. :sweat:

I seriously thought SA would take this one when the Suns were shooting so poorly and Amar'e kept getting shut down in the 1st half. I couldn't breathe the whole time watching the game. Each missed shot by Nash and blocked layup attempt by Amar'e was an arrow to my heart, lol. :beaten:

But oh my goodness, Game 3 was epic. Spell epic? D-R-A-G-I-C, epic. And that hug that Nash and Dragic shared when the buzzer expired made me go, Awwwww... :mrgreen: I've always loved underdog stories (Nash would be a classic case!) and the fact that another little-known foreign white kid (and from Slovenia for gawdssakes) stepped up and single-handedly won such a crucial game in such a crucial playoff series makes a bigger impact on me than a superstar doing his usual superstar-y stuff.

I don't know how Alvin Gentry did it after the mess that Terry Porter left behind, but the man's a genius. :applaud:

gaijinmark wrote:I'll go out on a limb and say the team coming out of the West will have purple as one of it's colors.

:hehe:

R U ORNG? :naughty:

Well, this Suns fan isn't celebrating just yet, though. If there's a team that can bust out of a 0-3 deficit it's Los Spurs. PHX should just focus on putting SA away. Thinking of how to beat the Lakers can wait. :victory:

Ender's Girl wrote:

:hehe:

R U ORNG? :naughty:

Well, this Suns fan isn't celebrating just yet, though. If there's a team that can bust out of a 0-3 deficit it's Los Spurs. PHX should just focus on putting SA away. Thinking of how to beat the Lakers can wait. :victory:

Nah, no way the Spurs are coming back, they may win game 4 but that's it. :beaten: Networks can't be too happy with the way the series are going, 3 possible sweeps and the Cavs will probably win in 5. :bleh:

Ender's Girl wrote:Well, this Suns fan isn't celebrating just yet, though. If there's a team that can bust out of a 0-3 deficit it's Los Spurs. PHX should just focus on putting SA away. Thinking of how to beat the Lakers can wait. :victory:

I'm really surprised the Spurs got beaten so handily in game three... Has their age finally caught up with them?


Lakers win a nailbiter in Utah, 111-110. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
I'm really surprised the Spurs got beaten so handily in game three... Has their age finally caught up with them?


Lakers win a nailbiter in Utah, 111-110. :sweat:

Think the age catching up is right, no supporting cast for the 'big 3', Suns though are a solid team, :applaud: can see the conference finals going to 7. Lakers are playing well too, they probably needed that tough first round series to put that jolt back into them. :dancing:

hitomi #1 wrote:
they probably needed that tough first round series to put that jolt back into them. :dancing:

That's what I was thinking. After they got blown out in game 4 in OKC, they've won 5 in a row, which is pretty hard to do in the playoffs.

Celtics won't go down easy as Rondo had a big triple-double to lead them to a 97-87 victory over the Cavs, :victory: thought that after that game 3 blowout Cavs were looking real good, now anything can happen when it's a best of 3 series. :sweat:

hitomi #1 wrote:Celtics won't go down easy as Rondo had a big triple-double to lead them to a 97-87 victory over the Cavs, :victory: thought that after that game 3 blowout Cavs were looking real good, now anything can happen when it's a best of 3 series. :sweat:

Yow, the Celts were really aggressive from the get-go in this game and took it to the Cavs...

Seems like Allen really kept LeBron under control in this game... Or was LeBron just tired from game three's performance?

bmwracer wrote:
Yow, the Celts were really aggressive from the get-go in this game and took it to the Cavs...

Seems like Allen really kept LeBron under control in this game... Or was LeBron just tired from game three's performance?

Guess trying to do it all you're gonna get tired more often :beaten: ...maybe the networks had some say in the matter, need ay least one series to go at least 6 games to recoup some of that outlay. :hehe: Would rather the Celts win, think the Cavs will though, maybe like the Lakers the Cavs need a wake up call now and again.

Suns sweep Spurs with 107-101 win :woot:

Ahhhh sweet revenge! :rolly:

(Now I can finally go and vote in our national elections, lol :beaten:)

Ender's Girl wrote:Suns sweep Spurs with 107-101 win :woot:

That's really really startling... Wonder if the Spurs will get some kind of overhaul in the off season...

bmwracer wrote:
That's really really startling... Wonder if the Spurs will get some kind of overhaul in the off season...

Nash is a beast.

Tu_triky wrote:

Nash is a beast.

Sure is, getting up there in age so this may be the best chance he'll ever have for that ring, :applaud: though the Lakers are going to provide one tough obstacle. Not much said about Orlando, what a roll they are on, 7-0 so far, outscoring the Hawks by almost 30 a game. :beaten:

hitomi #1 wrote:Sure is, getting up there in age so this may be the best chance he'll ever have for that ring, :applaud:

Why would this be his best chance? Because he's made it to the West Finals?

Hasn't he made it to the finals in the past?

bmwracer wrote:
Hasn't he made it to the finals in the past?

Nope. Got to the conference finals twice. Lost to the Spurs in '03, lost to Dallas in '05.

^ And he's the player (in NBA history) who's figured in the most playoff games without ever reaching the NBA finals, accdg. to the Game 4 announcer. :victory:

I agree, this is Nash's year. It's now or neverrrrr. (Just give the old man his championship ring fer the love of Pete... :sweat:)

Could be worse, he could have been Tom Van Arsdale. From Wiki:

Van Arsdale still holds the NBA record for most career games played without a playoff appearance. Van Arsdale played 929 games without making a single playoff appearance.

^ Didn't he play for Phoenix? :beaten: